We launched around 10am just as the tide had started to flood into a sea which still had a swell but not so much surf as on Saturday.
After a short paddle Marc anchored up whilst I went for a paddle closer in shore with the spinning rod and a baited shrimp rig in search of coalies. After no luck I returned to marc and tied up to him.
It wasnt long before Marc hooked into his first ever thornie of around 3-4lb on the first drop of the day 8-) Mission accomplished!
Marc followed this with another 6 or 7 (I lost count!) ranging from around 2.5lb to 4/5lb. I carried on blanking, but was getting plenty of thumps on the large frozen mackeral baits - think I was using too large hooks and too short snoods.
Finally, about 30 mins before I had to head home at 2pm I had a good thumping bite and pulled up into this beauty of a thornie which took half a mackeral - an estimated 6-7lb and a couple of pounds heavier than my first one last year. So left Marc to carry on for another hour, happy that I had christened my new scupper pro kayak with a personal best thornie:
Happy days 8-)
Gotcha!!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Steve - welcome to the blogging world :)
I wonder if you could use the 'yak' for the rays we got at Valley that time a few years ago.
Stu
Sea Fishing and Walking in the UK
Hi Stu
ReplyDeleteNice to hear from you. Still havnt paddled at that location yet but will hopefully give it a try for the bass this summer - down from four mile bridge on last phase of ebb and back up river on last phase of the flood